Occupation: Author Birth: June 14, 1811 Death: July 1, 1896
Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do ….
The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-….
Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durabil….
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt..
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline..
General rules will bear hard on particular cases..
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings lif….
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short..
intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death..
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end..
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be..
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike..
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others..
'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was….
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future..
Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that..
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother..
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done..
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment..
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women..
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today..